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Presidents have to make more life-and-death decisions than anyone can be prepared for. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made such decisions on a daunting global scale. Harry Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on civilians. Dwight Eisenhower, the modern president who came into office with the most experience in life-and-death choices, ended the shooting conflict in Korea. John Kennedy blundered in Cuba and then blundered into Vietnam, with Lyndon Johnson escalating that conflict into a horror that Richard Nixon inherited, struggled with and ended. Gerald Ford had the Mayaguez, and Jimmy Carter had the botched Iranian hostage rescue. Ronald Reagan invaded Grenada and saw U.S. troops blown up...

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